1. Goals scored or created by an accidental handball will be disallowed.2. Goal kicks will not need to leave the penalty area.3. The keeper can move before a penalty is taken, but must have at least one foot on the goal line when the ball is struck.4. Drop ball if the ball hits the referee.5. Attacking players must be at least 1 metre from a defensive wall at free kicks.6. Substituted player must leave the field at the closest point to him.

looking back on last friday, and the other games at the weekend- Ive seen the future - 10th at best. Now the leicester and everton are up and running them plus bournemouth look to have the 6-9 slots booked, the rest are away already,...

The technical level of most of the players isnt good enough to cut out the silly mistakes and loss of the ball all over the park which is why we keep losing to teams we should be putting away

we'll scuff a few two- four game sequences together however the excuses at then end of the season will be the same as ever ...

Nonsense in that it didn't suit the players, didn't work in the slightest, invited the luxury players to contribute next to nothing in defensive terms. Naive in the extreme. It made Pellegrini look like a rank amateur - I think we'd still be on 0 points if hadn't completely changed it after Wolves.

>>> 4-3-3 is a defensive set up? None of Moyes, Bilic or Alladyce ever played a 4-3-3 consistently.

Don't want to get into all that again. But in my view Bilic and Allardyce played the same 4-3-3 / 4-1-4-1 throughout their time at the club. We play a packed midfield, two wide players and one striker. It's one of the less flexible, more defensively minded shapes. Of course you can be attacking with it too like any shape, and that's why I prefer it to the utter nonsense Pellegrini was trying at the start of the season. The question really is why you need to pay such big bucks to Pellegrini to play in such a standard shape.

I think a way to make it more attacking would be to play Anderson or Snodgrass as CMs instead of Obiang or Noble. I think experimenting with that would be a good idea for matches where we have to break down an opposition.